Social Cues: A viral tweet asking for free Wendy’s nuggets is starting a new trend on social media.
Just a peek of the mountains of «How Many RTs» messages Tristan Hill has received.
How much does a retweet cost?
Across Twitter, there’s an uptick of people trying to exchange retweets for goods and services, as if they were real money. You can thank chicken nuggets for that.
On April 5, Carter Wilkerson, a teen from Nevada, sent out a tweet showing that he needed 18 million retweets to get free chicken nuggets from Wendy’s for a year. In less than 10 days, Wilkerson has climbed up to 2.9 million retweets, and the viral post doesn’t show any signs of stopping .
The record is 3.3 million retweets from Ellen DeGeneres , which she set during the Oscars in 2014. The TV host on Thursday took steps to defend her title , encouraging anyone who retweets Wilkerson’s tweet to also retweet her Oscars selfie.
Wilkerson’s tweet is so popular that even other brands are jumping onto the replies in hopes of piggybacking off the wildly viral post.
